Mary did scramble eggs for Matthew. I think Mrs. Patmore taught her how to do it.

I loved the scene of Mary and Mr. Blake getting down and dirty with the pigs.

I can't believe Julian Fallowes is going to have Mary snag someone else's fiancé again. Remember they have to kill off Matthew's fiancée, Livinia Squires (Sp?) so that Matthew could marry Mary. Will they kill off Mabel so that Mary can marry Lord Gillingham. I hope not. They need some non-blueblood blood in the family (Cora doesn't count), so Mr. Blake would be perfect. Gillingham is only after her money and Mr. Blake (what is the guy's first name?) will figure that out.

Anonymous wrote:No, Thomas will reveal to Bates who the rapist is so that Bates can kill and go to jail and Thomas can have Bates' job.

That seems believable! I can see the writers doing that. Thomas would never do anything so noble as to kill a rapist.

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Anonymous wrote:The only unbelievable part of this episode was Mary making eggs in the kitchen. As if!

no no no I think she does know how to make eggs…I think in one of the prior seasons someone taught her to make eggs. Didn't she make eggs for Matthew? Someone help me to remember. Didn't someone downstairs teach Mary to make eggs?

Sybil spent some time in the kitchen a few seasons ago.

Anonymous wrote:The only unbelievable part of this episode was Mary making eggs in the kitchen. As if!

no no no I think she does know how to make eggs…I think in one of the prior seasons someone taught her to make eggs. Didn't she make eggs for Matthew? Someone help me to remember. Didn't someone downstairs teach Mary to make eggs?

Anonymous wrote:The only unbelievable part of this episode was Mary making eggs in the kitchen. As if!

Yes! How does she know how to do that when there a many people going off to college who don't know how to boil water or make spaghetti?

The only unbelievable part of this episode was Mary making eggs in the kitchen. As if!

I agree with PPs that it's not out of character with Mary to get into the pig trouth (omg how do you spell that?) if her beloved estate is endangered.

However she would have taken her gloves off first or something--I think they would have undressed more. Or maybe that's just me thinking that because I do the laundry in the house…

re "It's not like I'm going to find another Earl's daughter to marry,"--to PP who asked why Tom wouldn't marry Mary; I think Tom and Mary aren't in love, that's why. I mean Mary and Sybil were very different. Anyways but Tom and Edith would be logical because it would not be for love; it would be Tom helping Edith out of a really bad situation.

Ok I have an idea. How's this? Edith's lover has gone AWOL because he's actually a spy--but a spy for ENGLAND and the Germans caught and imprisoned him and that's why he's incommunicado. He will conveniently reappear after Edith has married Tom.

Mary, Anna and Mrs Hughes are going to do a Mr Pamuk on the rapist

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Anonymous wrote:I have a guess about that rapist guy - in this episode it seems like Cora's maid is putting together what must have happened. She reports this to Thomas and he is the one who kill this rapist and thus redeems himself.

ooh....I think I should go to hollywood with my wild imagination

Hold on, you need some verisimilitude to be successful in your writing. Does it seem likely that Thomas would KILL someone? He can't even fight, he got his ass handed to him by some bums under an overpass. He's not Tony Soprano.

Then you have to think about his character. He's a sneak. He does things for himself, not for others. He doesn't care about redemption--when Braithwaithe (aka Branson's stalker) told him "nobody likes you", did he even care? NO! He's not going to kill someone to 'redeem'
himself.

Thank you PP for your comment. Reading some of these posts makes me so sad for posters who cannot follow the plot or story arc of a simple TV show.

But they have made some of the characters do "out of character" things. Ex.: Mary -- dirty with pigs. Branson -- cool with hanging out with the elite.

I don't think this is out of character at all, especially now. Perhaps at the start of the series, when she was younger and thought the world operated in a certain way. But now she's seen that great estates fall-- even her beloved Downton was at risk-- and young, healthy, happy people with everything to live for die. She's matured and become-- I don't want to say cynical-- realistic, perhaps. That fact that she's sided with Tom against her father with respect to the future of Downton and its solvency shows that she sees the world is changing, and she must and will change with it. Plus, Mary has a backbone of steel. She'll do whatever is needed in any situation. She is completely competent and has too healthy of an ego to worry that something might be "beneath" her. I think by definition, anything she does is appropriate and called for. Those pigs are going to save Downton. That's all she needed to recognize in order to get her feet muddy and water them.

I think Mrs Hughes will be in on killing the rapist, or at least the mastermind of a cover-up. I can hardly keep myself from googling it!

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else get the pig guy and the newly engaged guy (rapist's boss) confused? There are too many characters like that and ridiculous that they are ALL in love with Mary.

Who will kill the valet? Bates? Mrs Hughes? Anna? Mary?

They've got that bastard by the balls, so no need to kill, really. But if he turns up dead and Bates has a solid alibi THEN it could be interesting.

Does anyone else get the pig guy and the newly engaged guy (rapist's boss) confused? There are too many characters like that and ridiculous that they are ALL in love with Mary.

Who will kill the valet? Bates? Mrs Hughes? Anna? Mary?